Ok, now that the silliness of All Hallow's Eve is over, now we can get on to the seriousness of All Hallow's Mas.

Hallowmas of course is the day when the veil is theoretically the thinnest between the worlds. For those who practice the recently (the last 50 to 100 years is pretty recent) resurrected ancient earth based European religions, this is like the biggest holiday of the year (sort of). It's called Samhain. It's the day of the dead. Theoretically you can communicate with those who have passed over on this day.

If you have ever studied religions, in particular the evolution of the Christian religion, you will find that many of the Christian holidays coincide with ancient European pagan holidays. For the major holidays, Christmas was Yule and Easter was Eostar. There are a bevy of smaller Christian events that fundamentalists do not subscribe to much that were minor and even major pagan holidays way back when. They however did get translated into minor Christian holidays as the populace was forced to become Christian or die back during the Roman occupation of most of northwestern and southwestern Europe and the British Isles.

I don't really care because I don't practice either one of those religions. In fact, I don't practice any religion. I don't like people making up rules and telling me how I must be or think no matter what you label it. I do what I do and attempt to put as few walls up around it as possible. In fact, if I discover a wall in my thinking about spiritual matters, I will attempt to tear it down as fast as I can. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't. But I keep plugging away, climbing as best I can onward and upward. For the good of all and harm to none.

If however Samhain is what pagans believe it to be, then I would like to say hi to the following dead loved ones:

Hi to:

Debbie, JRS, Phil, Chris Ross, Tom Beaudet, Grandma and Grandpa Smith, Grandma Kjer, my sister Susan, Aunt Winnie and Lela. A special nod to someone else's Uncle Glenn. I don't know what you did to her, or what really went on in that relationship, but somehow someway she got majorly fucked up and I am not sure if you were part of what screwed her up so bad. All I know is that we all live with the repercussions of whatever happened to her as a child. If you weren't part of it, please drop me a line a let me know.

Happy Day of the Dead everyone!

Ciao